Henry Vincent Hodson, 1906-1999

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Hodson wrote many works throughout his long life, including “Economics
of a Changing World” (1933), “Twentieth Century Empire” (1948), “Slump and Recovery, 1929-37” (1938), part of
“The Empire in the World” (1937), “The British Commonwealth and the
Future” (1939), “Problems in Anglo-American relations” (1963), and many
articles in The Sunday Times, of which he was Editor, The Round
Table, which is the Journal of Chatham House, of which he was Editor
in the 1930s, and The Annual Register, of which he was Editor on
his later years. We present here some of the books for which he, and
subsequently his family, retained the copyright.

The book for which he is best known is “The Great Divide:
Britain-India-Pakistan”, published 1969, and re-issued in 1985.
This is the official History of the Transfer of Power from the British
Raj.
The family owns the copyright of this work, it has been transcribed to
e-text, and is available to anyone who asks for it. The reason for not
presenting it on this website is that it still needs a detailed
proof-reading, and we would hate to affect the history of the world by
some misprint which might anger the governments involved.

Here are the addresses given at H.V. Hodson's Memorial Service, May 1999, which was
held at St. Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside, London (the original Bow Bells of
the Nursery Rhyme), and at which the Right Reverend Richard Chartres,
Bishop of London, officiated: